The Livingston enterprise. [volume] (Livingston, Mont.) 1883-1914, 1887-04-02
: MONTANA NEWS.

| 1he CRACK shots OF Butte nave organ
lied rifle club. 1t begins with a mem
bership of fifteen.
A large barn and residence belonging
to E. Butler were burned in Glendive las
week, entailing a loss of $4,000
Towner Savage, a Custer county ranch
man, has struck good flow of water il
his artesian we'll at depth of 515 feet.
Charles Volk, driver of the Helen
brewery team, was fatally injured by tn
team running away with him on Monda.
last.
J. E. Cole, a prominent citizen of Helc
ma, in hurrying to fire in that place, wa.
stricken with heart disease and died OF
the way.
1t is reported that Crow Agent William
son will not allow cattlemen to go on the
reservation to skin such animals as straye(
over there to die.
Frank Smith, of Butte, was fined $25
and costs this week for carrying
concealed weapons, the same being razor
without a handle.
About twenty switchmen on the Utah
& Northern at Pocatello struck work last
Sunday on account of having to work
over hours without extra pay.
The close season for wild ducks and
geese in Montana is between the 18th dav
of May and the 10th of August, and the
fine for violation of the law on the subject
is from $50 to $3.50.
There was mass meeting of women
held in Miles City last Wednesday to
place in nomination candidates for the
school board. Verify the ladies of Miles
City are not slow going lot.
The Missoula county commissioners
last week cut down the salaries of the
under sheriff and deputy sheriff $500 per
year, the deputy clerk $4O0, and the
clerk of the probate court $4OO. There
is quite a row about it.
1t is risky business lending money on
some kinds Of Custer county real estate
One man invested in mortgage on an
slond in the Yellowstone and last week
IN ice gorge scraped that island off even
with the bottom of the river. ...
Two horse thieves named James Walker
and Jack Moore were arrested at Poney,
in Beaverhead county, last Saturday while
in possession Of band of forty three
lorses, bearing various brands and belong
ng to different ranchmen in that vicinity.
II, Millard has erected coklng ovens at
he Belt creek coal mines in Chotcau
o'lnty and finds that the coal makes ex-
client coke. This is the second instance.
We believe, where coal has been found in
Montana that will make coke success
ully.
The three Cheyenne Indians who res
ued from Deputy Hood, the young buck
1ho broke into the Rosebud office were
AIKEN to Miles City last week and turned
yer to the proper authorities by Two
looms and Red Sleeves. of the Indian
'Olice force.
Butte City is to hold an election on
April 2Sth next, to determine whether its
Dsidents desire an extension of the cor
crate limits Of the city. The proposition
) to enlarge the boundaries sufficiently to
omprise about double the amount of
md now embraced by them.
Conrad Bros, of Marysvillc, are in
nancial straits and have assigned to the |
>leinschmldt Commercial company of |
[elena. All Montana creditors are pre-
erred, and it is believed that the assets
re sufficient to pay all liabilities and per-
lit the firm to continue business.
New Northwest: Pat Casey, we'll
nown resident of Beartown, was struck
y the locomotive of freight train, on
le n. p. r. r., between Drummond and |
ear Mouth, last Sunday night, and quite
,riously injured. He was taken on the
me train to the Missoula hospital.
Larson, Keefe & Kirkendall have been
varded the contract for grading, tunnels,
'ck work, bridges and trestles for the
elena s. Butte division of the Montana
entral. 1t is understood that the con-
act price for doing the work is very
w. There were sixty bids in all for
lis work.
Butte Miner: 4 curious feature of the
Nv license law is that anyone can sell
'actly one gallon of any kind of liquor
lthout license. The provision for re-
il dealers is concerning those who sell
IS than one gallon; that for wholesale
callers those who sell over one gallon
Q liquors can be disposed of in the
holesaler's premises, SO that sampling
i'll have to be done ON the sidewalk or
the alley. AT least this IS the way the
Dunty Treasurer interprets the law.
The body of man who had evidently
'en dead three months was discovered,